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OpenStack - What the future holds

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So Krishnan Subramanian, in the Google+ hangout that he kindly arranged, asked "What next would you like to see or expect to happen in OpenStack project this year?" My more structured response is: - It is important that everyone in the project understands and appreciates...

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CloudStack ASFisation

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Well, with all the news and views being published in the past 24 hours on the Citrix CloudStack announcement, I think the note below from Simon Wardley (@swardley) sums it up very nicely for me. As rightly pointed in a number of the articles, it is an interesting...

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Breach Anatomy

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I came across this graphic from First Data on this blog post by Brian Krebs and couldn't help reposting it. Hope you find it useful.

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Another day, another victim - Global Payments

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PCI-DSS is an interesting standard. With multiple stakeholders supporting the transaction process, as explained very well in Martin Mckeay's post, it is a tough balancing act that the card brands have to play with the service providers like Global Payments and the merchants...

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OpenStack Foundation Challenges

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OpenStack is an open source platform, developed under Apache license, that enables businesses and service providers alike to create their own infrastructure clouds (IaaS). More details can be found here. It is a project with great interest and support from the developer...

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The Science of Status Updates and Emotions

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  Today, I attended a keynote address by Richard Beecroft Allan, Baron Allan of Hallam, the Director of Policy in Europe of Facebook. One of the interesting things that Lord Allan mentioned, at least for me, was that businesses can target the right demographic on Facebook...

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Private Clouds - Are you sold yet?

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Cloud computing in relation to infrastructure, in simple terms, is an evolution in the way compute and storage has been managed by the industry historically. Compute being the data processing technology and storage being the data storage technology. According to the...

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Managing unknown risks - what's your approach?

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I was driving last Friday evening on the M1, a major motorway in the UK, when at around the same time in probably similar weather conditions one of the worst motorway accidents in the history on the island was unfolding on the M5, another busy motorway. Seven people were...

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Commoditisation - exciting times for the industry

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The biggest shift we are observing and we will observe in these few years is how IT is being commoditised. This puts businesses of today and of the future in a great position. The ability to select the technology solution when they want it, how they want it and at a...

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